Language Log » The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility
Yuval Pinter writes: When an English speaker doesnt understand a word one says, its "Greek to me". When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it "sounds like Chinese". Ive been told the Korean equivalent is "sounds like Hebrew". Has there been a study of this phrase phenomenon, relating different languages on some kind of Directed Graph? Well, theres a Wikipedia article on the topic "Greek to me" with a table of correspondences, a page at Omniglot "Its all Greek to me" with a similar t...
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